Life is tough.
Sooner or later, we’ll experience a trying situation which feels like hell. It isn’t actual hell, thank The Most High. Nevertheless, the power of that notorious situation/trauma makes us feel tortured with pain, despair and hopeless evidence. Eating disorders, addictions, compulsions, loss and grief are just a few examples of things which can feel like hell, if, indeed, torture is its calling card.
It’s painful and almost impossible to see future, life, possibility or The Almighty. We can, instead, much more easily see ourselves as failures, weak, forgotten and ruined. It’s, therefore, inevitable we come to a screeching halt; we stop in the mire and can only feel ourselves sinking…down to where? Greater depths of hell and torture?
But that’s not Elohim’s truth about us. Even in the middle of hopelessness, The Most High is there…living…loving…working…
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love (The Most High) God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
Romans 8:28
“Behold, I am the Lord (Elohim), the (The Most High) God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?”
Jeremiah 32:27
It can be tempting to believe that in our self-defined hells, we’re going it alone. But we’re not. Psalm 23 reassures us of that truth…
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me…”
Psalm 23:4
And as we ‘keep going,” transformation, bit by bit, occurs…
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord (Elohim), are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord (Elohim).”
2 Corinthians 3:18
And “keep going” doesn’t necessarily mean a dramatic, larger than life display. It can be the tiniest effort, decision or prayer. It just needs to exist. Our Divine Creator requires only a mustard seed of faith, not a mountain.
I believe we underestimate both The Most High and ourselves. We can be one thought, word or deed away from breakthrough; we never know. But HE does. And even when we fall short, HE has decided and created the contingency plan for us. Yahshua.
“…being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of (Yahshua Ha-Mashiach) Jesus Christ.”
Philippians 1:6
Are we confident in that Truth? Are we confident in The Great I Am’s involvement as we go through our different kinds of hell? Do we “keep going,” armed with trust in Him, leading, guiding, helping and transforming our lives, even in the appearance of wreckage? We all need help in this area of the faith department.
We’re all in process. That applies to the “going through hell” process.
Are you experiencing some kind of hell right now? Are you stopping in it or moving through it? Regardless, He is too good of a Creator and Father to leave you in that spot; you WILL get through this, whatever “this” may be. Trust Him.
“Trust in the Lord (Elohim) with all your heart; and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
He has much more for you and me!
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord (Elohim), thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11
Keep going!
